Vent: Please Clean-Up After Your Dog!

How many of you are dog owners? We don’t own a dog but we do help to take care of our grand-dog. We’re 100% dog lovers and if we had the time…we would definitely own one.

With that said…we’re pretty disgusted with the laziness that we see with dog owners in our neighborhood. We often see them out walking their dogs and letting them take a crap in everyone’s front yard, on the sidewalks, the side of the street, etc. I understand you can’t control where your dog decides to take a poop…but you can certainly CLEAN UP AFTER THEM!!!

Several neighbors in my development who don’t own dogs have complained to the township about the lazy dog owners in our neighborhood. Those complaints haven’t improved the situation. A few of us went out and purchase yard signs that state you have to clean-up the dog waste and/or signs that state dogs are not permitted on their yard/property, etc. Again, this hasn’t helped either.

Over the past 8 weeks I’ve actually photographed a few of these “bad neighbors” allowing their dogs to crap in our yards and on the public sidewalks and turned those photos into the township. Again, that hasn’t yielded any positive results! Ugh.

We’re really fed up with this now…so every time I catch one of the “bad neighbors” allowing their pooch to crap on my property I go outside and confront them. Yup, that’s what I’ve been doing. I don’t care if they now consider me the neighborhood b*tch or the old mean lady who lives down the street. Screw them! These pet owners are lazy and disrespectful to their fellow neighbors for the simple fact that this is going on and they know we’re fed up with it.

I told my husband that pretty soon I’m going to go the PUBLIC SHAMING route if these “bad neighbors” don’t get their act together by posting their “bad act” photographs on my Facebook page and Twitter feed. Perhaps that would stop it, but I doubt it.

How many of you have ever dealt with a situation like this? If you have…how did you resolve it? I’m fed up with it!!!